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by casualrandomcom 8mo ago
To be true to Taubes, my memory was too approximate. The actual claim was that in 1976 Fred Stare, the director and founder (in 1942) of the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard School of Public Health was exposed by Michael Jacobson havi
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by casualrandomcom 8mo ago
I don't know why this was re-posted today (kind of suspicious that this floats again after 10 year just by chance) anyway, there is a full citation-heavy book by Gary Taubes about this, and one of his points was that the sugar industry
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Yes, Cash Transfers Work(theatlantic.com)
13 points by casualrandomcom 1y ago|2 comments
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
Money alleviates poverty. It’s not complicated. By Annie Lowrey
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
"You might want to grab a cup of $beverage before continuing, this is going to take a while." Instead, I launched a compilation.
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
This blog post is unfair to horseless carriages. "lack of suspension" The author did not see the large, outsized, springs that keep the cabin insulated from both the road _and_ the engine. What was wrong in this design was just th
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
>> imagine a world without advertising > I can't because a world with magic and world peace is more realistic and believable. I don't know, in my country advertising tobacco products is forbidden since at least 20 years,
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
They look symmetric to me, but that's not point anyway, I guess they are parables, only they are rotated, their axis is not parallel to the y axis. If those are 2nd order functions in the 2d plane, then we don't agree on terminolo
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
You are thinking of those parables as parametric curves, I guess, but Newton's method is about approximating an arbitrary function by its Taylor expansion truncated to the second degree, which is a polynomial function of second degree.
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
Yes, that's what I guess has happened.
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by casualrandomcom 1y ago
Maybe I had my Gell-Mann effect moment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect ) The illustration of the Newton method is wrong, isn't it? The approximating second order polynomials that were drawn
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by casualrandomcom 2y ago
At first I thought you were not getting it, but, thinking it through, I now think the real problem is that the article gave us the averages (600, 701, 5000) without giving the standard deviations and nobody is outraged! The combined resul
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by casualrandomcom 2y ago
I have found this long read a useful summary of deliberate practice https://fs.blog/deliberate-practice-guide/
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by casualrandomcom 2y ago
"By learning how the Shire worked, we can start to understand how our own past worked, in all its complexity and contradictions." Sorry but this is totally preposterous. Why should we look at our past through a fictional creation
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by casualrandomcom 2y ago
"Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat, and there’s rarely much left over." This i contentious, I h
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
Don't you see that 90% of these is just "There is plastic in the environment" It does not say "plastic harms this or that". The equality "plastic presence"=="plastic harm" is not obvious to me To
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
I do totally remember. I remember the time when the press cried "there is no cork left on earth!!". I remember the time when cheap wine came with plastic corks. I remember the time when cheap wine had cork corks again.
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
"I don’t think we need to argue plastic incurred harm, it should be obvious." ? I'd like a clear and obvious reference.
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
Italian television brought coffee to the lab, and the results where not reassuring (from minute 18 onward, only Italian, I am sorry) https://www.rai.it/programmi/report/inchieste/Un-espresso-a-... aluminum wa
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
Just read the title... can something that happens over a 50 years span be correctly described as a "collapse"? go figure
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
The author does not know what it is meant by "deliberate practice" nowadays. Everytime they use it, they should have written "rote practice" or, simply, "practice".
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by casualrandomcom 3y ago
It never occurred to me that "being able to solve basic math problems I had not seen before", implied that I "could threaten humanity". Wow!
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An Oil Giant Quietly Ditched the Biggest Carbon Capture Plant(bloomberg.com)
3 points by casualrandomcom 3y ago|0 comments
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
rocket propulsion has been used in forced sterilizations?
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
This only tells you in what dire conditions lay psychology and psychometrics. IQ is only propaganda for an ideology.
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
Stephen Jay Gould wasn't making excuses.
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
"being unbiased" can be fairly honestly called a "value". Europeans apparently have chosen it as one of their own values. If you are arguing that being truly unbiased cannot ever be realized, I counter that neither truth
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
What do you make of this https://twitter.com/thwjanssen89/status/1570426961411067904?... comment?
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
mmmmh, if your criterion is the happiness of the least happy... I guess C++ is a total failure!
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by casualrandomcom 4y ago
Only to underline this common fallacy: "Name an economically successful communist country." The purpose of communism has never been that of being "economically successful". If you want to dismiss communism as a failure,

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